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Given our current, "engagement maximizing" news media/social media architecture it doesn't matter who stands up and speaks the truth and how well they do it and how many clicks the…

Oh Geez! I work in Industrial Automation. I have had a front row seat to the gains made over the last 20 years that nobody ever predicted. I give factory tours regularly and most p…

Replicators. Feels like no one watches Star Trek anymore. Those writers had more time to think about this stuff than most science labs and engineering teams imho.

You maybe right. It took about a 100 years of thousands of weavers playing with punch cards, trying to increase loom efficiency, before Joseph Marie Jacquard perfected it. Until th…

NASA's WorldWind is a similar project for those interested - https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind docs - https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/

original interview - http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/astronomer-avi...

The difference is in the size of your Sales team. Lot of open source projects would benefit, if they had dedicated sales teams contacting firms day in, day out talking about their …

Religious institutions are in a very odd place these days. They are on the front lines, in terms of contact with the weakest, poorest and most troubled members of society. They att…

Self organized learning classrooms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upg8LlJZtas

These things take time. Your job is to make sure they are constantly reminded an alternate path is available. Thats it really. It doesn't matter if the majority of them are struggl…

People do things they never thought they could only when they tell themselves the right story. More than "coping" or "making it ok" it's how mountains get climbed. Try contributing…

"The only way" you are suggesting is not the only way. Changing people's thinking and behavior, especially that of highly misguided characters in power, requires as Psychologist Ma…

I am going to keep posting the ledger of harms - https://ledger.humanetech.com/ Until we see all the issues in one place like a github issue tracker, solutions will always be piece…

Quite out of touch. No Russian I have ever worked with in the US has ever wanted to return to Russia. Russia has truly squandered their deep talent and potential over the decades. …

There is ofcourse more to it than that. "Getting back up" after life knocks you down is a huge factor in their success. There are very few successful adults protected from life's b…

hmm I see what you are saying. Thanks.

Yup Matt Taibbi has a good book calling the news media - Hate Inc. They spend all their time stoking fears and amping peoples anxiety and threat perception, all to maximize engagem…

True. There are so many issues most people don't even realize until it hits them personally. https://ledger.humanetech.com - to see the cumulative damage, engagement maximizing soc…

What about blindness or deafness?

ledger.humanetech.com - good place to submit studies and view the cumulative damage, engagement maximizing social networks are doing in one place. People need to see the diverse ef…

Thanks for those posts. Learnt something. Hopefully one day we are better at producing this data for everyone at a personalized level.

> caloric overflow pools in other parts of the body So if you are saying its contributing to "increased mental clarity and engagement" but the overflow is causing issues over time,…

I just saw that well written comment and was thinking it's a crazy thing - that an astronomer at a large gathering of astronomers, surrounded by so many interesting people, discuss…

I am glad you used the word trapped - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/07...

Lot of disruption ahead to be sure. The tech is getting better and faster at identifying issues. But this also means pointless/thoughtless interventions being done all the time. If…